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Saturday, May 15, 2010

1. The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

2. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu

3. An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb

4. When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw

5. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

6. Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~Paul Pearshall

7. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford

8. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson

9. Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann

10. And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Terri Guillemets

Wonderful quotes on family... We are still here in Kentucky visiting with our three kids and son in law...loving the family time :o) Only wish that we lived nearer to ALL our family! ...but with us in Georgia, daughter and son in law soon to move to Indianapolis, daughter and son still in KY for more school, family in Hawaii, Wisconsin, Alabama, Minnesota, California...this isnt possible.